Folding clothes-rack attachment for bedsteads.



F. D. PELLETIER. FOLDING CLOTHES RACK ATTACHMENT FOR BEDSTEADS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 24, 1908.

932,1 69.- Patented Aug. 24, 1909.

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FOLDING CLOTHES-RACK ATTACHMENT FOR BEDSTEADS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 24, 1909.

Application filed February 24, 1908. Serial No. 417,313.

To all whom it may concern: or branches adapted in their inoperative Be it known that I, FRANK D. PELLETIER, positions to fit vertically in the chambers 4. a citizen of the United States, residing at At suitable points the post 3 is provided Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and with horizontal cylindrical openings 6 hav- 5 State of Missouri, have invented certain ing contracted mouths 7, there being one of new and useful Improvements in Folding these openings 6 for each arm 5. The arms Clothes-Rack Attachments for Bedsteads, of 5 are provided with laterally projecting which the following is a specification. necks 8 sufliciently narrow to play up and This invention relates to folding clothes down in mouths 7, the necks preferably 10 rack attachments for bedsteads, and my 'obterminating in cylindrical heads 9 to fit ject is to produce a device of this character snugly yet pivotally in openings 6, the parts capable of quick and easy attachment to a being so proportioned and arranged that the hollow bed post. heads cannot be fitted in the openings with- A further object is to produce an attachout slipping them endwise therein.

15 ment of this character which when not in The post 3, is provided with one or more use is incased and hidden by the bed post vertical recesses 10 containing spring-actuand which is adapted to be slid upward to ated catches ll normally lying in said reoperative position for the purpose of holdcesses but which when the post 3 is elevated ing hats, coats and other garments. sufficiently high, spring outward so as to 20 A still further object is to produce a deoverlie the top of post 1 and by engagement vice of this character of simple, strong, duratherewith support the post 3 in its elevated ble and cheap construction. position, it being understood that as the post To these ends the invention consists in cer 3 is slid upward the arms 5 successively tain novel and peculiar features of construcswing downward to the operative position tion and organization as hereinafter deshown in Fig. 1, so as to be in position to scribed and claimed; and in order that it support a coat, or other garment, the head may be fully understood reference is to be or knob 2 forming a convenient support for had to the accompanying drawing, in a hat. which In Figs. 5 and 6 I show a slide bar in the 30 Figure 1, is an end view of a portion of form of a cross, the cross fitting snugly in a bedstead of the hollow iron type, equipped post 1 and the spacesbetween the arms of with a clothes rack embodying my inventhe cross and the post forming chambers & tion, arranged in operative position. Fig. 2, for the reception of the arms 5, which in this is an enlarged central vertical section of the instance are preferably each pivoted to the 35 same with the rack wholly incased by the bar by a cross pin 12, it being understood bed post. Fig. 3, is a horizontal section that the cross-shaped post will also be taken on the line IIIIII of Fig. 2. Fig. equipped with the catch or catches 11 for en- 4, is a vertical section of a portion of the gagement with the upper end of the post 3 post and rack to expose more clearly the conto support the bar in its elevated or opera- 4O struction of the spring catches for supporttive position. To lower the bar to inoperaing the rack in elevated position. Fig. 5, is tive position it is lifted slightly to permlt a horizontal section of a modified constructhe catch or catches to be pushed inward tion with the rack incased by the post. Fig. and then it is lowered until the bar is wholly 6, is a vertical section on the line VI-VI incased in the post and the head 2 is resting 45 of Fig. 5. upon the upper end of the post and forming In the said drawing, 1 indicates one of the the knob thereof. posts, preferably the foot post, of a metal From the above description it will be ap bed and 2 indicates the ornamental head or parent that I have produced a folding knob which normally forms the top of the clothes rack attachment for bedsteads, pos- 50 post but which also forms ahead for a sliding sessing the features of advantage enumerpost 3 fitting in post '1 and by preference ated as desirable. practically square in cross section so as to Having thus described the invention what provide vertical chambers 4 between it and I claim as new and desire to secure by Letthe interior face of the post 1. The post 3 tors-Patent, is

55 is provided with a plurality of hinged arms The combination with a tubular post, of a longitudinally-grooved bar fitting slidingly in the post and provided with a horizontal cylindrical opening across and having a contracted mouth opening into the groove of said bar; an arm adapted to fit in the groove I of said bar; said arm having a laterally-projecting neck 8 engaging and capable of pivotal movement in the said contracted mouth and a cylindrical head plvotally engaging FRANK D. PELLETIER Witnesses H. C. RODGERS, G. Y. THORPE. 

